The first two series were written by Jimmy McGovern, excepting the fifth serial "The Big Crunch," which was contributed by Ted Whitehead. Main article: List of Cracker episodes Production Amelia Bullmore (Series 1.5, 1.6) and Isobel Middleton (Series 2.1, 2.3, 3.1) as Catriona Bilborough.Russell was cast at Coltrane's recommendation. Geraldine Somerville as DS Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon.
To emphasise how fine a line the police (and Fitz) walk in their close association with criminals, all three series featured several stories in which the police become victims of crime or themselves commit criminal acts like rape, obstruction of justice and assault and battery. In many later episodes, in fact, the crimes often became background to intense, provocative explorations of the police officers' reactions to the crimes they investigated. As the series moved forward the storylines became as much about the interactions of the regulars as it was about the crimes. Several different psychotic types were explored during the run of the show with increasingly complex psychological motivations that, as the series entered the middle of the second series, began to expand beyond the criminals being investigated to the regular cast members. Some of the plotlines in the cases took as their starting point real events such as the Hillsborough disaster, while others were purely fictional with only tangential ties to actual events. I am too much."Įach case spanned several episodes and cliffhangers were quite often used, but it was not until the end of the second series that a cliffhanger was employed to tie off the series.
As Fitz confesses in "Brotherly Love": "I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. He is a genius in his speciality: criminal psychology. A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996 and another two-hour story in 2006.įitz is a classic antihero: alcoholic, a chain smoker, obese, sedentary, addicted to gambling, manic, foul-mouthed and sarcastic, and yet cerebral and brilliant.
The show consists of three series which were originally aired from 1993 to 1995. Set in Manchester, the series follows a criminal psychologist (or "cracker"), Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane, who works with the Greater Manchester Police to help them solve crimes. Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.
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